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ALAMANCE-BURLINGTON SCHOOLS AROUND OUR SCHOOLS SHOUT OUTS June 10, 2016

Shout Out to Highland Elementary Donna Westbrooks, Director of Teacher Recruitment and Induction

Erin Millspaugh, academic coach at Highland Elementary, has been named the 2016 Alamance-Burlington Mentor of the Year! The annual award is presented to an experienced licensed educator who serves as a mentor for beginning teachers in their first, second or third year of employment with Alamance-Burlington Schools. In her fifth year as academic coach at Highland, Millspaugh has been employed with ABSS since 2002. She has previous classroom experience as a second grade teacher at

Eastlawn Elementary and in third grade at South Graham Elementary. In addition to serving as a beginning teacher mentor at Highland Elementary, Mrs. Millspaugh also serves as a lead mentor for the district. She is a graduate of Southwest Baptist University in Missouri. Nominated for her outstanding knowledge in curriculum at all grade levels, exemplary leadership and organizational skills, and professional, nurturing nature, Mrs. Millspaugh was also lauded for her effectiveness in assisting new teachers with challenges in communication, classroom management and instruction and with for her ability to provide effective feedback and problem-solving advice for new educators. Congratulations Erin! Pictured L to R: Highland Elementary principal Holly Wroblewski, Erin Millspaugh, ABSS Mentor of the Year and Lisa Parham, mentee

Shout Out to Our National Teacher of the Year at Turrentine Middle!

Congratulations to Megan Webb, National K-12 Teacher of the Year from the American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese! Check out the great story in a recent edition of the Times-News:

http://www.thetimesnews.com/news/20160604/turrentine-spanish-teacher-top-in-nation

Ms. Webb will receive her official recognition in July!




Shout Out from CTEC Gina Bader, School Counselor

On June 1st, six CTEC students presented their final Project Lead the Way (PLTW) engineering project to their teachers, family, and friends. These dedicated students are the first class to complete all four honors levels of PLTW which includes Intro to Engineering Design, Principles of Engineering, Computer Integrated Manufacturing, and Engineering Design & Development (EDD)! The premise of EDD is for students to identify and select a problem to work on for the entire semester. Once selected, they research it with patent searches and what is available on the market today. Students then conduct a survey to identify that their problem is a problem for others. Once approved by the instructor, students begin with brainstorming, decision matrix, sketching and prototyping of their ideas to attempt to fix the identified problem. Students work in teams to complete the design process of fixing their problem. ABSS gave the team a budget to spend on materials needed to complete the project. Students do lots of testing and more prototypes with Inventor (a CAD program) and the 3D printer (MakerBot) to see their idea come to life. All information is entered into a Innovational Portal for electronic storage.

Team Ice Scraper consisted of Nick Kuczkowski (Southern Alamance), Samantha Luu (Western Alamance), and Matt Wells (Western Alamance). They redesigned the ice scraper to cover more surface and be more functional. Team Toaster was Garner Fleming (Eastern Alamance), Austin Hurdle (Western Alamance), and Nathan Langley (Western Alamance). They worked to improve the mechanics of a toaster so the toast would pop up higher and not get stuck in the toaster. Both teams did an excellent job. Deryl Smith, their PLTW for three of the four courses, was able to present them with their PLTW stoles to recognize their commitment to this program. We are very proud of this group of students!

Team Ice Scrape pictured above L to R: Nick Kuczkowski (Southern Alamance), Samantha Luu (Western Alamance), and Matt Wells (Western Alamance) Team Toaster pictured at right L to R: Nathan Langley, (Western Alamance), Austin Hurdle (Western Alamance) and Garner Fleming (Eastern Alamance)


Congratulations

on a job well-

done, CTEC

Engineers!


On Wednesday, June 8, our CTEC engineers demonstrated their projects to Times-News, News 14 and Mebane Enterprise, with CTEC staff members in attendance.

Check out the Times-News story:

http://www.thetimesnews.com/videos/C5EA8690-50B6-4AEA-A001-38F32FB0A455/CTEC-students-demonstrate-their-ice-scraper-design.-Prototypes-made-with-a-CAD-program-and-3D-printer.

Be on the lookout for an upcoming story in the Mebane Enterprise!

Be on the lookout for the Time Warner Cable News 14 Connect A Million Minds story about CTEC engineers that will air on Monday, June 20 all across North Carolina, beginning at 5 a.m. on the odd hours, and posted on their website!

http://www.thetimesnews.com/videos/C5EA8690-50B6-4AEA-A001-38F32FB0A455/CTEC-students-demonstrate-their-ice-scraper-design.-Prototypes-made-with-a-CAD-program-and-3D-printer






Shout Out from Western High Stephanie Mitchener, Career Development Coordinator

Congratulations to Mrs. Ward’s Microsoft Word and PowerPoint students for earning 2 of the 2013 Microsoft Specialist Certifications! Mrs. Ward had 95% of her 1stblock students earn both Word and PowerPoint Specialist Certifications; 3rd block had 100% of the students earning both certifications whereas 4th block had 91% earning both specialist certifications. A special congratulations goes out to Manuel Miranda for earning the Word & PowerPoint Specialist Certifications as well as Word Expert Certification (successfully passing both expert tests). Manuel is now considered Master-Level Certified by Microsoft. Go Manuel!!


Mrs. Ward is extremely proud of all her students in that she lists their names and scores every year on a special bulletin board!


Shout Out from Elon Elementary Cheryl Howe

Elon Elementary's Second Grade invited the State Employee Credit Union Fat Cat to teach us on how to save money, understanding supply and demand, bartering, checking and interest. The students had a lot of questions about money and understood how important money is to our economy. Thank you Fat Cat and Mrs. Brandi Foster!


Shout Out from Woodlawn Middle Crystal Taylor, School Counselor

We celebrated our 8th grade student awards on Tuesday, June 7th. We had a total of almost 200 students that participated this year. Our students received several academic acknowledgements, in Science, Math, Social Studies, Language Arts and their elective classes.

One big recognition was a total of 60 students during their three year career academically made the A/B honor roll each year and three students made all A's honor roll in Middle School . This was not a easy quest to accomplish with several of them participating in 2 or more sports, as well as, the musicals and band productions at school and other extracurricular activities outside of school. Several students received honors and superlative recognition for their participation

in Drama, Chorus, and band during their middle School years. Woodlawn Middle school is the only middle school that puts on an annual full scale musical production.

All teachers spoke highly of this particular group of students’ academic gifts and talents were stellar. Many bragged about seeing future leaders that will be instrumental and productive adults one day!


Congratulations to our 8th grade class! Best of luck next year in high school!


Shout Out from Southern High

Check out the What’s Right With Our Schools story by Cindy Farmer on WGHP Fox 8 about the Southern High Carpentry students’ Parade of Homes with help from horticulture, foods and interior design classes:

http://myfox8.com/2016/06/09/southern-alamance-high-school-students-learn-carpentry-skills/





Shout Out from Williams High Dee Sizemore, Math Department

Shout out to Patti Askew who is retiring from Williams HS this month after teaching for 36 years, 35 of them at Williams HS and 30 of those in the same classroom, Room 204! Over those years, Patti has taught Algebra I, Algebra 1A, Algebra 1B, Geometry, Math II, Algebra 2, Advanced Functions and Modeling, and Pre-Calculus. She has had many duties, advised clubs, been department chair, and served under 10 different principals at Williams HS! Patti attended Sellars-Gunn as a 9th grader, graduated from Williams in 1976, and then from UNC Chapel Hill in 1981. She taught in Georgia for her first year out of college and started teaching at Williams in 1981. So altogether, she has spent 38 years at this school! As far as we can tell, no other teacher in the history of Williams has taught that many years here. Dave Grant suggests we put up a statue of Patti in the foyer! It will be hard without her, but her advice to those she is leaving behind is, "You are NOT indispensable. The world will continue and students will still learn even after teachers and administrators move on." Thanks, Patti, for all you have done and what you have meant to the Williams HS family of student, parents, and faculty over the years! Best of luck in the next chapter of your life!


Shout Out from Alamance County Libraries Alexis Vivian,

Children’s Services Check out these fun summer activities sponsored by Alamance County Public Libraries!


Shout Out from Andrews Elementary Kathie Townson & Eboni Jones On May 31, 2016 the parents and students from Mrs. Donna Surrette’s class at Andrews Elementary School celebrated her retirement. It was a real party! They had food, music, cake, and gifts. Each child provided Mrs. Surrette with a gift as a token of love and thanks for all of her hard work. The students also worked on a craft project which involved all of their handprints. Parents celebrated Mrs. Surrette and offered words of thanks and encouragement as she journeys off into retirement. Mrs. Surrette was very happy and expressed gratitude for being able to work with wonderful students.

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